Today’s Wordle offers a great challenge that fits neatly between very easy and very difficult – although you might find it leaning towards the latter if you don’t pick the best starting word for Wordle.
In fact, there are two complicating factors to the game today so if you don’t play carefully you risk losing your streak. But I can help make sure that doesn’t happen.
I’m a Wordle addict and have been playing since December 2021 so I can definitely help you solve Wordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for hints and clues about Wordle #587.
Spoiler warning: Below is information about Wordle today and Wordle yesterday, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Wordle Today (Game #587) – Hint #1 – Vowels
- Wordle has it today single vowel*
This is relatively unusual for Wordle – the game has an average of 1.75 vowels out of 2,309 answers.
The last game with a single vowel was Saturday #581: BLURB.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel as well).
Wordle Today (Game #587) – Hint #2 – The first letter
- The first character in today’s Wordle answer is w.
W is the 13th most common first letter in Wordle, with 82 solutions beginning with this letter.
You should go back to Wordle #561, on Sunday Jan 1, for the last time we have an answer that started with a W – in this case the solution was WHINE.
Wordle Today (Game #587) – Hint #3 – Repeat the letters
- there One repeated letter in Wordle today.
Repeated letters are so common in the game that 748 out of 2,309 answers on Wordle contain one. That’s roughly 15%, which means you’ll get one every 6-7 games.
As it happens, we had our last one just yesterday, in Game #586 (BEEFY).
Wordle Today (Game #587) – Hint #4 – Final clue
Still looking for clues for Wordle today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you another hint for game #587.
- Wordle’s answer today means worry or agony.
If you just want to know the answer at this point, you can scroll down to see it, but I always recommend trying to solve it yourself first. We’ve got plenty of Wordle tips and tricks to help you out, including a guide to the best Wordle starter words.
If you don’t want to know the solution, don’t scroll for anything else because the answer is directly below. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Wordle Today (Game #587) – Answer
Today’s Wordle was theoretically difficult, with an unfamiliar W at the beginning and a double R in the middle.
WordleBot rated it an average of 4.3, which is higher than the standard 4 most games are equal to. I managed it at 4/6 myself, so it’s a bit below average, despite a poor start that left me with 77 possible answers after my initial guess of CRATE.
With no vowels revealed in my opening guess, I wanted to play a couple more a second time around and went with ROUND. This proved very fortunate, as it gave me a green O in position #2 and I left out the R as the starting letter.
WordleBot said there were only 7 possible solutions left, although I didn’t know that at the time (you can only use WordleBot once the game is over). However, I could see that there weren’t many options, and I only came up with 4 myself: worry, sorry, lory, and ponies. The ones I missed were FORGO, MORPH, and WORMY.
All of my choices ended in a Y and three had a double R before that, so I decided to head down this path and played SORRY afterward. I wasn’t right, but anxiety seems like a more likely answer than a British LORRY, and that was proven when the five letters turned green.
We hope you solved it too and found Wordle today to be a reasonably straightforward challenge.
Wordle Yesterday (Game #586) – Hints
In a different time zone where is it still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some hints for Wordle #586 as well.
- Wordle was yesterday two vows*
- The first character in Wordle’s answer yesterday was B..
- there was One repeated letter in Wordle yesterday.
- Wordle’s answer yesterday means it’s built in exponentially.
Wordle Yesterday (Game #586) – Answer
Wordle #586 was so difficult that WordleBot reported that it took 4.6 guesses to solve. That’s really high: anything above 4 is more difficult than normal, and once you get past 4.5 you’re in very difficult territory.
There are several reasons why this is difficult. For starters, it has an F in fourth place, something that only happens in 35 of the wordle’s 2,309 games. Placing a double-E in the middle isn’t uncommon—59 games have an aptitude somewhere—but it still makes the word hard to guess. .
In addition, the word BEEFY itself is not very common; It’s definitely on the vernacular side of things.
Fortunately, I was very lucky with my second guess after the CRATE editorial left me with an E.
My second word in these situations is BLEND which appeared on the trump card, giving me green B and green E and leaving me with only one possible solution. Lucky me!
Wordle Answers: The Past Fifty
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for over a year now and I’ve tracked down all the answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the past 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer.
- Wordle #586, Thursday, January 26: Fat
- Wordle #585, Wed, Jan. 25: corn
- Wordle #584, Tuesday, January 24: number
- Wordle #583, Monday, January 23: Avoid
- Wordle #582, Sunday, January 22: matte
- Wordle #581, Saturday, January 21: blurb
- Wordle #580, Friday, January 20: change
- Wordle #579, Thursday, January 19: nasty
- Wordl #578, Wed 18 Jan: CHARD
- Wordle #577, Tuesday, January 17: Embrace
- Wordle #576, Monday, January 16: dress
- Wordle #575, Sunday, January 15: Spur
- Wordl #574, Saturday 14 January: koala
- Wordle #573, Friday, January 13: Human
- Wordle #572, Thursday, January 12: jump
- Wordle #571, Wed, Jan. 11: Sedan
- Wordle #570, Tuesday, January 10: filth
- Wordle #569, Monday, January 9: pixie
- Wordle #568, Sunday, January 8: opera
- Wordle #567, Saturday, January 7: Lemon
- Wordle #566, Friday, January 6: Bailey
- Wordle #565, Thursday, January 5: Penguin
- Wordle #564, Wed, Jan. 4: layer
- Wordle #563, Tuesday, January 3: opposite
- Wordle #562, Monday, January 2: skirt
- Wordle #561, Sunday, January 1: whine
- Wordle #560, Saturday, December 31: manly
- Wordl #559, Friday, December 30: cool
- Wordl #558, Thursday, December 29: HAVOC
- Wordl #557, Wed 28 Dec: embel
- Wordl #556, Tuesday 27 December: Flat
- Wordle #555, Monday, December 26: the judge
- Wordl #554, Sunday, December 25: additional
- Wordl #553, Saturday, December 24: poise
- Wordl #552, Friday, December 23: aorta;
- Wordl #551, Thursday, December 22: excel
- Wordle #550, Wednesday, December 21: mole
- Wordle #549, Tuesday, December 20: Third
- Wordle #548, Monday, December 19: slate
- Wordl #547, Sunday, December 18: taper
- Wordl #546, Saturday 17 December: Tendon
- Wordl #545, Friday, December 16: probe
- Wordl #544, Thursday 15 December: competition
- Wordl #543, Wed 14 Dec: usual
- Wordle #542, Tuesday, December 13: Wire
- Wordle #541, Monday, December 12: Implementation
- Wordle #540, Sunday, December 11: naive
- Wordl #539, Saturday, December 10: Methods
- Wordl #538, Friday, December 9: cue
- Wordle #537, Thursday, December 8: Risks
What is wordle?
If you’re on this page, then you definitely know what Wordle is already, and you’ve probably already been playing it for a while. And even if you haven’t been playing it, you’ve certainly heard of it by now, because it’s a viral pun that swept the world last year and is still going strong in 2023.
We have a full guide to the game on our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher, here are the basics.
What is wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five letter word every day. You get six guesses, each guess revealing a little bit of information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the correct place, it turns green. If it is in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it is not in the answer at all, it turns gray. Simple, huh?
It is played online via Wordle site Or the Crossword app for The New York Times (iOS/Android), which is completely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone every day, which means you’re competing against the rest of the world, not just against yourself or the game. Then the puzzle resets each day at midnight to your local time, giving you a new challenge and a chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
Wordle’s rules are pretty straightforward, but with some curveballs thrown in for good measure.
One. Letters in the answer and in the appropriate place turn green.
2. Letters in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters not included in the answer are greyed out.
four. The answers are never plural.
5. Characters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two uni-characters, they could both turn yellow, and they both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in the Wordle dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for example.
7. You do not have to include the correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you are playing hard.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the Daily Wordle before midnight in your time zone.
10. All answers are from Wordle’s list of 2309 solutions. But…
Eleven. Wordle will accept a larger set of words as guesses – about 10,000 of them. For example, you can guess the plural form like WORDS. It certainly wouldn’t be true (see point 4 above), but Wordle would accept it as a guess.
